[…]ou because we've both (Alan and I) read that fascinating autobiography of yours, so I won't ask you very much about the early days before you were in films, but you were born in 1905, which makes you a bit older than me, but did your family have any connection with the entertainment business?Muriel […]
[…], which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I started there was because my father was having a film made there. He wrote for the cinema and theatre, and I thought it would be a good idea to go into films because you didn't need any intelligence […]
[…]fter the other, 'till I got this big shed.Rodney Giesler: How do you mean, you opened up?Larry Allen: Well I had projectors and I was making animated films back in them days, as a boy.Rodney Giesler: Yeah, but where did you get the money to buy the projectors?Larry Allen: Well actually the projector[…]
[…] Drama Departments of BBC, ABC and also controller of Canadian Film Board. Intervi ewer Norman Swallow (NS ) with Alan […]
[…]ould do. And I worked for The Beast for quite a time, it was based in Blenheim Crescent, which was 6 Notting Hill, almost exactly where the film was, the Rhys Ivans, is it Rhys Ivans?, Welsh actor, who comes out in his underpants... Notting Hill? Yeah, Notting Hill, and I think i[…]
[…]nment History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.CITATION: Women’s Work in British Film and Television, Daphne Shadwell, http://bufvc.ac.uk/bectu/oral-histories/bectu-oh [date accessed]By accessing this transcript, I confirm tha[…]
[…] Did you want to become a journalist, or a playwright, or a script writer? Did you have an ambition?Jill Craigie: Well I gradually wanted to become a film writer. But before that I was always having ideas, and I didn't quite know. I didn't have any guidance. What it must be to be in a family like th[…]
